2:41 PM,
May 6, 2013

Danny Combs, David Bridges, David Falk and Jono Fries stand in front the archway opening of the old Maisonette restaurant.

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To David Falk, the beauty of Italian cuisine is its simplicity and restraint, its dishes that have no more than four impeccable ingredients on a plate.

That simplicity is the basic concept of his new restaurant Sotto that soon will occupy one of the most storied addresses in local cuisine - 114 East Sixth St., in the former Maisonette basement space that once was La Normandie.

"It's hard-core, straight-ahead Italian," Falk said of the restaurant he expects to open by late March. ...